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Post by kuskiwi on Jan 26, 2024 5:51:05 GMT 2
I'm trustee and one of the beneficiaries has had her name on a waiting list for a unit in a retirement village since 2021, but we kept hearing of others moving in much quicker. Finally got fed up and we both went to see the liason. Did the bad cop, good cop routine. I'm sure you can guess what I was. Listened to all the bull shit, pushed a few more difficult questions her way and got told probably 6 months. Walked the complex with the liason officer. 14 units being upgraded. Phone call this morning. Take your pick. Occupancy Date 1 June once compliance complete. I'm sure that she had been dropped off the list as when I asked the liason what day we signed up, she couldn't answer, but I had a copy in my handbag which she checked and she fluffed round on the computer to find it.
Jolly annoyed as they have gone up 250,000 dollars since we signed and the new Occupant is struggling in her huge current home.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 26, 2024 10:46:55 GMT 2
heard from i hung out together one summer
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Post by Netsuke on Jan 26, 2024 10:56:53 GMT 2
seeing our locksmith & our wine merchant You have a wine merchant? I feel like I’m in a novel. Good on ya!
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Post by Baz Faz on Jan 26, 2024 12:01:29 GMT 2
We already have a wine merchant in southernmost Italy. He goes by the name of Supermercato.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 26, 2024 22:04:11 GMT 2
seeing our locksmith & our wine merchant You have a wine merchant? I feel like I’m in a novel. Good on ya! we do. its a posh place i know the son so i will get a small discount the parents are snotty, tho
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Post by tzarine on Jan 27, 2024 22:03:52 GMT 2
chaka khan's voice
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Post by kuskiwi on Jan 27, 2024 22:56:28 GMT 2
This should go in the angry thread but continues from last post. Panic call from liason officer. Sorry got it wrong. Only 1 left. Went and did a visual as not able to be inside. Turned it down. Was the middle of 3 conjoined and no windows on the side, as two garages blocked the light and a big bank at the back. Not right for the particular person as she needs light or gets mental health issues.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 28, 2024 5:44:04 GMT 2
the man from toogood gave us a lovely extra a smile for britney @ the shop a smile from an older lady in the neighborhood
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Post by tzarine on Jan 31, 2024 0:43:36 GMT 2
good annual checkup great conversation w dr about our travels - nagasaki, shanghai
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Post by tzarine on Feb 6, 2024 23:58:31 GMT 2
my funny son chat w milly bout growing up - so many similar experiences in different parts of the country sun
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Post by Voy on Feb 7, 2024 15:53:35 GMT 2
Getting my phone back !! It fell off the back of my truck when I forgot it there and left a polo match. Luckily someone found it , called a number and found out it was mine, gave it to the polo manager of the tournament - and I got it back at the afternoon game ! Let that be a lesson to all of us - BACK UP YOUR PHONE - regularly !! In case you don't get it back, you won't have lost all the numbers...
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Post by tzarine on Feb 8, 2024 6:59:36 GMT 2
cali fam safe no damage
chatted w cali fam, caught up
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 8, 2024 9:45:50 GMT 2
Voy’s post reminds me of the days BMP (Before Mobile Phones) we all remembered phone numbers of important people be they family or otherwise, yet now, with the advent of mobiles, I am unable to remember even one phone number! I remember my own mobile number but not the house phone which I never use anyway and the only person who ever rings that number is my mum.
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Post by Voy on Feb 8, 2024 15:48:40 GMT 2
Nets - exactly ! I can remember tons of phone numbers from my childhood - my too favorites are my grandmother's and my godmother's which ended in 0003 and 0001 respectively - because those two families had the first and third phones in town and just kept the base number as the overall numbers got bigger and bigger !
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Post by tzarine on Feb 8, 2024 22:47:20 GMT 2
my childhood phone numbers were 665 4068 661 3926 ah la days
vanilla ice cream w valrhona chocolate sauce
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Post by tzarine on Feb 9, 2024 1:21:11 GMT 2
giving my niece sh%t bout her french period
cheesecake cape cod sour cream crisps
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Post by sophie on Feb 9, 2024 4:53:38 GMT 2
Found out I lost 11 pounds this past month!! (I’ve been trying to lose weight prior to my knee replacement)
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Post by shrjeff on Feb 9, 2024 7:33:47 GMT 2
my childhood phone numbers were 665 4068 661 3926 ah la days vanilla ice cream w valrhona chocolate sauce you are soooo young! you already had 7 digits! mine in l.a. was WA(lnut)2421... ah, the good old days with prefixes...
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Post by tzarine on Feb 9, 2024 7:58:46 GMT 2
my childhood phone numbers were 665 4068 661 3926 ah la days vanilla ice cream w valrhona chocolate sauce you are soooo young! you already had 7 digits! mine in l.a. was WA(lnut)2421... ah, the good old days with prefixes... wow jeff! we lived on heliotrope across the street from lacc right off melrose before it got posh & trendy there was a fosters freeze i frequented on, i think, santa monica i went to ramona elementary school
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 9, 2024 13:22:32 GMT 2
Our telephone number was 50-4767. Our geographic was S.E.6. Our address was 3 Viva Street, Glen Iris. S.E.6. I used to get thrupence pocket money every Saturday morning. Wednesday was poor night and sometimes mum didn’t have any money for meat so she’d ring dad and he’d go to St. Kilda on the way home from work and bring home hot chips for tea. No fish, just chips. We’d eat it with bread with lashings of butter on it. Dad got paid on Wednesdays and gave mum the weekly housekeeping money after he got home.
ETA. Every Monday morning I took two shillings to school for school money. The nuns took it up after Prayers. That money was for school fees. I think.
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Post by Voy on Feb 9, 2024 15:49:53 GMT 2
back to the phone numbers - the town I lived in was an experimental town for the phone company (oh the bliss when there was A phone company) I remember when we got prefixes.. ours was Lowell = LO , LO 8 2081 - but the cool thing was we had direct dial before anyone else . I do remember at the farm when I was a teen, we still had operators - and if I picked up the phone and gave, say Flicka's number, the operator would say, "she's at Carol's - want me to ring there?" !! - and when I bought my farm in 1983 I still had a 4 party line until i987 !
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Post by shrjeff on Feb 9, 2024 17:18:09 GMT 2
you are soooo young! you already had 7 digits! mine in l.a. was WA(lnut)2421... ah, the good old days with prefixes... wow jeff! we lived on heliotrope across the street from lacc right off melrose before it got posh & trendy there was a fosters freeze i frequented on, i think, santa monica i went to ramona elementary school we lived on beverly blvd, corner of laurel ave and i went to laurel avenue school... there was a fosters freeze a couple of blocks up beverly... towards la cienega...
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Post by tzarine on Feb 9, 2024 22:17:20 GMT 2
wow jeff! we lived on heliotrope across the street from lacc right off melrose before it got posh & trendy there was a fosters freeze i frequented on, i think, santa monica i went to ramona elementary school we lived on beverly blvd, corner of laurel ave and i went to laurel avenue school... there was a fosters freeze a couple of blocks up beverly... towards la cienega... shrjeff used to sneak into rooms @ lacc used it as this park the art deco ramona elementary still stands ramonaes.lausd.org/recently when tzar's cousin was dying we stayed w them in torrance & visited one of the old foster's blogs.dailybreeze.com/history/2014/03/29/fosters-old-fashioned-freeze/
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Post by slowcoach on Feb 10, 2024 9:14:10 GMT 2
Some of you had private lines; like when ordinary people can find your number in a directory, call from a public phone, state their business to the housekeeper/maid and wait to hear whether you will take their call?
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Post by Voy on Feb 10, 2024 14:50:01 GMT 2
^ yep ....heheheh
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 11, 2024 14:51:24 GMT 2
Just got an email from a chum. His son is a chef who has relocated from Berlin to a restaurant somewhere in the English Lake District. On his very first night there was a visit from a Michelin inspector. He has just heard that Michelin has given the restaurant one star. As he commented: One service, one star, easy.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 11, 2024 23:28:20 GMT 2
hanging out w spencer eating chocolate not watching the superbowl
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Post by Voy on Feb 12, 2024 3:01:12 GMT 2
Just a fun day all round at polo - no real explanation - just constant running into friends, and new people , and sons of friends - and a yummy asado for lunch - just left me feeling good !
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Post by Scrubb on Feb 12, 2024 4:33:20 GMT 2
Great story, Baz!
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Post by tzarine on Feb 12, 2024 5:25:01 GMT 2
wow jeff! we lived on heliotrope across the street from lacc right off melrose before it got posh & trendy there was a fosters freeze i frequented on, i think, santa monica i went to ramona elementary school we lived on beverly blvd, corner of laurel ave and i went to laurel avenue school... there was a fosters freeze a couple of blocks up beverly... towards la cienega... la cienaga & norms! www.laconservancy.org/learn/historic-places/norms-la-cienega/love the architecture & eating there also the unpc sambo's
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